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Porter County's Republican Party has canceled its annual Lincoln Day Dinner, scheduled for April 9 at Sand Creek Country Club in Chesterton, after Gov. Mike Pence pulled out and organizers were concerned about finding another speaker on such short notice....

Gov. Bruce Rauner's hand-picked state Republican chairman is looking to put Democratic Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in a political trick bag on property taxes.Republican Commissioner Timothy Schneider of Streamwood intends to ask...

U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's resignation is not only a blow to national Republicans, for whom Schock raised millions, but also to Illinois Republicans.
Just eight weeks ago, Schock was widely believed to be next in line to chair the National Republican...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure passed by the Republican-run Congress blocking the National Labor Relations Board from streamlining the process for union elections, saying government should not make it harder for workers to be heard...

Gov. Mike Pence called off public appearances Monday and sports officials planned an "Indy Welcomes All" campaign ahead of this weekend's NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the firestorm over a new law that has...

— Rep. Tammy Duckworth's challenge to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk portends a costly battle in what figures to be one of the most closely watched 2016 Senate contests.
Duckworth, 47, a two-term Democrat from Hoffman Estates who lost her legs in the Iraq War...

BOSTON — Even though Ted Kennedy died less than six years ago, the Senate today is a changed institution, President Barack Obama said Monday as he remembered the Massachusetts senator and Democratic Party icon.
Obama, the keynote speaker at the...

President Barack Obama summoned today's quarrelsome political leaders on Monday to emulate the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in the pursuit of compromise, and said a new institute that bears the longtime Massachusetts senator's name can be as much an...

In its March Newsletter, the DuPage Republican Central Committee (DRCC) announced its recommendations for the office of DuPage Regional Board of School Trustees in the upcoming April 7 election, including Laura Pollastrini of Carol Stream, Dominick...

Bob of Oak Forest states that legislators aligned with the "Democratic Chicago Machine" have "misused our money for decades." While true, he forgets that Republicans are also in the legislature and were happy to go along with the...

What's Quickly? It's where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at (312) 222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com.
If anyone thinks that restaurants are going to stop serving gays because of the new law,...

Closing in on an expected announcement that he will run for president, Sen. Marco Rubio said Monday that he is planning a political event in two weeks in Miami to announce his 2016 plans.
The first-term Republican from Florida, appearing...

Spence Jackson provided the official confirmation a month ago that his boss, Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, was dead from what police described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
On Monday, police confirmed that Jackson had shot himself in an apparent...

A state Senate subcommittee on border security will hear a plan to scrap a law that grants in-state public university tuition to the children of some people in the United States illegally.
Texas Democrats and Hispanic advocacy groups champion the law,...

Among the many problems with Indiana Senate Bill 101, the so-called religious freedom restoration bill, are that the Republicans in the Indiana statehouse and Gov. Mike Pence, who claim to be fiscal conservatives, do not seem to care whether they use...

Second-term U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth is expected to announce her candidacy Monday for the U.S. Senate and a potential challenge to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, a source familiar with her plans said.
Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, will be the first...

Wisconsin voters will decide April 7 whether to amend the state constitution to let state Supreme Court justices choose their leader.
Approval almost certainly would mean the court's conservative majority will strip long-time Chief Justice Shirley...

Now that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has thrown his cowboy hat into the ring for president, it's time to start handicapping the candidates, even if some of us may wish we had more choices.
That's OK, my fellow Americans. You vote for — or against — the choices...